Asia
Only One of Eight Elevators Function at Indian Public Hospital
Only one of eight elevators at South Goa District Hospital in Margao, the commercial capital of the Indian state of Goa, is operational, Heraldo reports. The source says the elevator...
Take the Q3 2022 Elevator Industry Survey
Elevator World, Inc., the German elevator association VFA Interlift e.V. and fair organizer AFAG, in association with Credit Suisse, are continuing to survey the global elevator industry to better understand...
India Residential Lift Company Expands With New Office Space
Nibav Home Elevators, a leading elevator company in producing vacuum residential lifts, has announced it is expanding its Chennai, India, presence with a new three-story downtown office while also releasing...
273 VT Units Coming to 82-Km Rail Corridor in India
Two-hundred seventy-three vertical-transportation (units) — 162 escalators and 111 lifts — are coming to the 82-km Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) high-speed rail corridor traveling through Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut...
Indian Railways Has Made Nearly 500 Stations Accessible
As part of Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (Accessible India Campaign), Indian Railways (IR) has made 497 stations handicapped-accessible by providing lifts and escalators, Orissa Diary reports. In line with policy, IR...
Schindler Built-In Technology Presented at Singapore Show
Jardine Schindler Group featured new technology, including Schindler's BuilT-In, at BEX Asia in Singapore in September. BuilT-In is a state-of-the-art Building Transit Integrator specially designed to meet modern-day buildings' present...
TKE Launches enta100 GL in India
TK Elevator (TKE) recently launched its enta100 GL elevator in India, targeting the low-rise, value-for-money market to bolster its existing offerings in the country, T&D India reports. The newer enta100...
Hitachi Develops Touchless Operating Panel for Elevators
Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd. recently announced in a press release that they have developed a touchless operating panel establishing an elevator without physical floor buttons. This...
Residents: Lift Entrapment Points to Larger Issues at India Towers
Residents of an affordable housing complex in Gurugram in northern India say the entrapment of a 6-year-old boy in a lift on September 15 points to larger elevator maintenance issues...
Fujitec Announces EPDs for European Market Lift Products
Japan's Fujitec Co., Ltd., recently announced Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its main European market lift products. EPDs for Fujitec's Rexia (machine-room-less)/Zexia (machine room) and Elsia (high-speed gearless MR) lifts...
